Installing Suse To A Scsi Drive; Customer Interface Card And Usb Connector - IBM 8677 - BladeCenter Rack-mountable - Power Supply Hardware Maintenance Manual And Troubleshooting Manual

10. Try to move the drive, to make sure the wire spring is holding it in place. If the
11. If you replaced the diskette drive, reconnect the cable at the rear of the drive.

Installing SuSE to a SCSI drive

The SuSE Linux operating system sees the diskette drive as a SCSI device. When
you are trying to install SuSE to a SCSI hard disk drive in a blade server SCSI
storage expansion unit and the blade server is the current owner of the media tray
(optical drive, diskette drive, and USB port), the SCSI identification of the diskette
drive can cause problems. SuSE might not install properly to the SCSI hard disk
drive.
For a remote (network) installation, make sure the blade server is not the current
owner of the media tray before you attempt to install the SuSE Linux operating
system on the blade server.

Customer interface card and USB connector

Complete the following steps to remove the customer interface card from the media
tray.
Note:
v Read "Installation guidelines" on page 31.
v Read the safety notices at "Safety information" on page 85.
v Read "Handling electrostatic discharge-sensitive devices" on page 88.
1. Remove the media tray (see "Media tray" on page 48).
2. Remove the media tray cover (see "Removing the media-tray cover" on page
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3. If you are removing the diskette drive, disconnect the cable from the rear of
the drive.
4. Slip the wire spring out from under the retention hook, and pull it away from
the drive. Set the wire spring aside.
5. Slide the drive out of the front of the media tray, and set it aside.
6. Set any jumpers or switches on the replacement drive to match the drive you
just removed.
7. Slide the replacement drive all the way into the bay on the media tray.
Drive guide
Wire spring
Retention hook
Drive guide
8. Align the holes in the side of the drive with the hole in each drive guide.
9. Push each end of the wire spring through the hole in the drive guide and into
the hole in the drive; then, push the middle of the wire spring under the
retention hook.
drive slides forward, remove the wire spring and repeat steps 7 through 10.
48).
CD-ROM drive Diskette drive
Drive guide
Wire spring
Retention hook
Drive guide